Question

I have two tables with the following column names.

users

ui | email | pass

user_profiles

_email | qty | lvl

I am attempting to make sure that everytime a new user is added to the users table that the user_profiles table creates a new row for the new user. However it fails. After reading through many sample trigger statements I can’t seem to find the error.

CREATE TRIGGER updatUserProfilesTBL AFTER INSERT ON users
BEGIN
INSERT INTO user_profiles (_email)
VALUES (new.email)
END;

Answer 1

Looks like you are missing the FOR EACH ROW. Additionally, you will need to alter the DELIMITER if executing this through the MySQL command line and add a ; after the insert statement.

DELIMITER $$
CREATE TRIGGER updatUserProfilesTBL AFTER INSERT ON users
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
  INSERT INTO user_profiles (_email)
     VALUES (new.email);
END$$
DELIMITER ;

According to the CREATE TRIGGER spec, it is not optional.